A New Jane Austen - Dr Juliette Wells

A New Jane Austen

How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist
Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-36550-6 (ISBN)
22,40 inkl. MwSt
Completing Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen’s global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia.

Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen’s novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy.

Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.

Juliette Wells, Professor of Literary Studies at Goucher College (USA), is the author of two acclaimed books about Jane Austen’s historic readers and fans: Reading Austen in America (2017) and Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011). For Penguin Classics, she edited Austen’s Persuasion (2017) and Emma (2015).

Introduction

Chapter 1: Austen for Americans, and for the world: Oscar Fay Adams, critical editor and biographer

Chapter 2: Canonizing “the giant Jane”: William Dean Howells, interpreter and advocate

Chapter 3: Topaz crosses plus treasures of another kind: Charles Beecher Hogan, collector and keeper of reading journals

Chapter 4: A labor of love and friendship: Alberta H. Burke, Averil G. Hassall, and the building of a transatlantic Austen archive

Afterword: Jane Austen Anew

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 35 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-350-36550-5 / 1350365505
ISBN-13 978-1-350-36550-6 / 9781350365506
Zustand Neuware
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